By Karen Mahar, Acting Head of Junior School

Important Dates

Thurs 28 Feb	Year 5 Excursion to Radford Rowing Shed
Fri 1 Mar	Year 6 Intro to Rowing Excursion
Mon 4 Mar	Year 3 Excursion to National Zoo
Wed 6 Mar	Year 6HB and 6TH Offsite PE Lesson
Thurs 7 Mar	Year 1-2 Swim Carnival PreK and K Beach and Boardies Day
Fri 8 Mar	Grandfriends Day

 

Reading Challenge Water Fun

Imagine the surprise when the culmination of the 2019 Reading challenge saw the JA Mackinnon Oval turn into a water fun park on Friday! 

There was great excitement when our entire Junior School joined together to celebrate as a community. Students, staff and Year 12 prefects enjoyed the frivolities and were rewarded for ongoing efforts to make reading a daily habit. 

Some students went to great lengths to reflect the A-Z of reading. Photos of students across all year levels are being displayed in the JS Reception, a wonderful reflection of how much our community values books and reading.

 

Year 3-6 Swimming Carnival

This year the Junior school Swim carnival was held at CISAC. The day commenced with a gentle walk down the hill for students in Years 3-6. The day included races, fun and laughter, novelty events and lots and lots of cheering! 

The growth mindset demonstrated and fairness displayed by all students was a large part of the carnival’s success. Congratulations to all involved, especially our Year 6 leaders, who encouraged and supported with wonderful spirit. 

We are grateful for all the planning and preparation that went into the carnival by our sports staff, along with the contributions from all staff involved throughout the day. 

School photos

Junior School photos were taken last Wednesday. Staff worked hard to ensure there were smiles all around. Each class, all individuals and many family photos were captured. 

Carpark

Thank you to everyone for your support for our drop off and pick up arrangements over the past weeks.  The morning arrival and afternoon departure procedures are improving by the day, and we are grateful for your assistance in making this challenging situation work.

Your cooperation is appreciated in ensuring drivers do not leave their vehicle in the ‘Drop and go/collect zone’ adjacent to the ELC before 8.45am or after 3.10pm. 

Late Students

We have large numbers of students arriving after the school bell at 8.35am.

It is a requirement that any K-6 student who arrives late needs to sign in at Reception before joining their class. Please support your child by allowing enough time to be ready for learning before the school bell.

Parent Class Liaisons

We continue to seek interest from parents for our class parent liaisons for 2019.  To date we have had volunteers for about half of our classes.

A former parent liaison described the role as: 

• to facilitate interaction between parents so as to develop and foster a sense of community
• to support parent- teacher interactions through discussion and reminders of upcoming class activities and events.  

The role is important in linking our families with each other and fostering a sense of community within each year level. If you are up for ‘friend-raising’ and making connections with families, and if you would like to be your child’s class parent liaison, please contact beth.maggs@radford.act.edu.au  with your details (including your child’s name and their class). 

The Class Liaisons will be given email addresses for their relevant class.  If you do not wish your email address to be shared with your class liaison, please contact Beth Maggs by Tuesday 26 February, 2019. 

Once all classes have a parent liaison, we will meet to discuss the role together as a group. Each year our parent liaisons seek to strengthen our community through a number of year level or whole school events.

  

Requesting Leave

A component of our Registration is that we must be able to demonstrate that students who have been absent for more than two days (for non-medical reasons), have sought this leave prior to non-attendance.  

A simple email request to the Head of Junior School is all that is required to start this process.

Lost Property

At this time of year, cool mornings often mean a jacket is worn to school and discarded by recess time. Please clearly label all your child’s items of clothing and property. 

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